WEB HOSTING GLOSSARY
.Com
A type of domain name that is used by commercial enterprises.
.Net Hosting
A type of web hosting that supports the .Net applications.
Access
Microsoft"s application for creation and maintaining databases. It is commonly used by developers who maintain online databases running on Windows NT.
Active Server Pages
Active Server Pages is a server side language that provides web developers an easy, fast and reliable platform for developing the web applications.
ActiveX
ActiveX is a set of properties that specify in what way applications share information with each other. These properties are known as ActiveX Controls.
Aliased Nameserver
An aliased nameserver is one that has been labeled as your own, except that it is actually owned by your web hosting provider. This allows domains hosted on your server to be listed as "ns.your-domain.com" rather than "ns.your-providers-domain.com". Aliased nameservers are often offered with reseller accounts.
ASCII
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, an international standard for the code numbers that are used by the computers to represent all the numbers, upper cases, lower cases, Latin letters and punctuations. There are 128 standard ASCII characters/codes.
Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP is an option in the FTP software that allows the users to download the files without establishing an account.
Apache
Apache, currently the most popular web server on the net, is a public-domain open source program used by web servers to handle web requests and serve up web resources. It is a full-featured server with many powerful add-ones freely available. Apache runs on the Unix/Linux platform and supports the PERL and PHP languages which Known Host also runs on and supports.
Applet
Applet is a small Java program that can be embedded in a HTML page.
ASP
Active Server Pages is a server side language that provides web developers an easy, fast and reliable platform for developing the web applications.
Auto responder
Auto responder is a program that sends auto replies to the incoming emails.
AWStats
AWStats is an open source, log file parser and analyser, suitable for analysing web server, streaming server, mail server and ftp server log files. All possible information contained in your log is displayed in a graphical manner. It is written in PERL and works either from the command line or as a CGI script. Known Host offers AWStats to our customers who choose cPanel as their control panel of choice.
Blogging
Blogging is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person"s life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. Known Host offers a variety of blogging tools with your control panel on all hosting packages such as b2evolution (cPanel & Plesk), WordPress (cPanel & Plesk), Nucleus (cPanel), pMachine Free (cPanel) and plog (Plesk).
CGI
The most common way for web servers to interact dynamically with users. It works by passing data from a server to a CGI program, designed to receive and return data. CGI is a popular interface used to create server-based web applications with languages such as Perl or C.
Cgi-bin
Cgi-bin is the directory on a web server where CGI scripts are stored. Websites must have a cgi-bin in order to run CGI programs.
Cold Fusion
Cold fusion is a scripting language that is used for the advanced development and database interfacing.
Cookie
A cookie refers to a piece of information that is sent by the web server to the web browser and saves it.
cPanel
cPanel is a popular website management tool which runs on most widely used Linux distributions. The software is designed for the end users of your system and provides those users with full control of their own system. Known Host offers cPanel to our customers on all our hosting packages.
Dedicated Hosting
This hosting feature allows a web site to have its own server. It is more flexible than shared hosting as webmasters have full control of the server, including choice of operating system. Server administration is still taken care of by the hosting provider.
Dedicated IP
Dedicated IP is an IP addresses that is fixed with a single website.
Disk Space
Disk Space is the amount of storage space given to a web site. The more disk space you have the more pictures, HTML files, videos, programs and email you will be able to store on our server. All of Known Hosts hosting packages come equipped with more then enough disk space to keep your system running at full capacity.
Domain name
Domain name is the unique name that identifies an internet site. It must be different than all other domain names, workgroup names, and computer names on the network and have two or more parts separated by dots. An example of a Domain name is www.knownhost.com.
Domain Name Server
Domain Name Server is a program running on a server which automatically translates domain names (http://www.knownhost.com/) into their correct TCP/IP addresses (127.0.0.1). Whenever you request a web page the web browser must consult the domain name server to find out what the numeric translation of the URL is. This is necessary because computers only understand the numeric IP address, whereas we humans prefer to use meaningful and more memorable text.
E-Commerce Hosting
E-Commerce hosting is a hosting plan that allows the merchants to accept the orders online.
E-commerce
E-commerce is business that is conducted over the internet using different types of applications. It includes consumers using the internet to purchase goods and services online; as well as businesses selling and communicating with other businesses through the internet. This is usually done with a "shopping cart" on the page, and the buyer can purchase with their credit card. Known Host offers a variety of E-commerce programs with your control panel on all hosting packages.
Email Aliases
An Email Alias is an address that forwards all email it receives to another email account. Email aliases are often used to create replacements for long or difficult-to-remember email addresses. They can also be used to create generic email addresses such as sales@yourcompany.com and info@yourcompany.com. Known Host provides our customers with unlimited email aliases on all hosting packages.
Email Forwarding
Email Forwarding is a service that automatically forwards your email to an existing email account. This is extremely helpful if you have more then one email account. With email forwarding you send and receive email in the same way that you always have while looking far more professional. Known Host provides our customers with unlimited email forwarding on all hosting packages.
Flash
A popular application designed by Macromedia. Flash is widely used on the Internet as it requires little bandwidth, which makes it friendly to users with low speed connections.
Front Page
A Microsoft software program which is used to design web pages. Front Page Extensions are a series of scripts which provide the server side implementation needed for all versions of Microsoft Front Page and will allow you to publish your site directly from the Front Page application. Known Host offers Front Page/Front Page Extensions pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
FTP (file transfer protocol)
FTP is the language used to transfer files over the internet. It is a way to download a file from a server using the internet or to upload a file to a server. Anonymous FTP is an option for customers because it does not require users to identify themselves with a password or log-in.
Full Root Access
Full Root Access is the ability to access the server with root (super-user) permissions, giving you full control to manage server configuration, install custom applications and the power to support virtually anything. Daily server backups and remote access for restart and reboots are all possible through Full Root Access. Known Host provides Full Root Access to our customers who choose to sign up for any of our VPS packages.
Firewall
A firewall is a security system that prohibits the access to the network. A firewall is of two types software and hardware.
HTML
Hyper text markup language is a code that the web pages are written in.
HTTP
HTTP is a protocol that is used to transfer the files across the internet.
IP Address
An IP address is a unique number that is used to identify a computer on the internet.
IIS
IIS is web server software from Microsoft.
Java
A scripting language which enables web designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to a web site through special programs called applets. Common Java applets used on web pages include animation, calculators and real-time updating of information. Java is also designed for writing programs that can be safely downloaded to your computer through the internet and immediately run without fear of viruses or other harm to your computer or files.
Intranet - A large internal network structured in a similar way to the Internet. Intranets are typically established by large corporate organisations to help communications within the organisation. The difference between the Internet and an Intranet is that the latter is restricted to authorised users only.
Load Balancing
Load balancing is a technique of dividing the load of a single website or services over the multiple servers.
Linux Hosting
A type of hosting that supports Linux.
Log File
A log file is a file that records the activities of the web server.
Managed Hosting
A dedicated server that is supplied with a full suite of technical support, setup, maintenance and monitoring services. Managed Hosting differs from Dedicated Hosting where customers are provided with their own server but still have to take care of all the administrative duties related to the server.
MIME (Multi-purpose Internet email Extensions)
A protocol that allows users to transfer non-text email messages containing audio, video or images.
Mirror Site
A mirror is an exact copy of an existing web site or FTP server. Mirrors are used to spread traffic load on busy web sites or FTP servers.
MySQL
An open source and most popular relational database management system that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. MySQL is extremely fast, reliable and can be tailored to your specific needs. Known Host offers MySQL pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
Name Server
A server responsible for translating domain names to IP addresses.
NOC (Network Operations Center)
A hosting company"s "home base". The NOC is typically where most administrative, technical support, and physical server housing takes place.
osCommerce
osCommerce is a powerful E-commerce and full-featured online store-management software program which uses the Apache web server, PHP language and MySQL database. osCommerce features an online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved. Known Host offers osCommerce to our customers on both cPanel and Plesk control panels.
Parking
All domain names when newly purchased need to be stored on a server. Most domain registrars will temporarily place the new domain on their servers until the new owner changes the DNS to point to a different site. While the domain is in this temporary location the domain is known to be parked.
PERL
PERL is a programming language designed for processing text and because of this aspect, one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. Perl scripts are not embedded within HTML pages and do not download to the web browser but reside on the server. It is widely used to write web server programs for such tasks as automatically updating user accounts and newsgroup postings, processing removal requests, synchronising databases and generating reports. Known Host offers PERL pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
PHP
PHP is an open source server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic web pages and interact with databases. Because PHP is executed on the server, the viewer cannot see the code. PHP is basically used for developing web based software applications. Known Host offers PHP pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
PHPBB
PHPBB is a popular free and open source forum system using the PHP scripting language and supporting a variety of database management systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Microsoft Access and, with modification, Oracle. Known Host offers PHPBB to our customers on both Cpanel and Plesk control panels.
POP (Post Office Protocol)
An email protocol that mail software such as Microsoft"s Outlook Express use to communicate with email servers.
PhpMyAdmin
PhpMyAdmin is an open source, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. It is written in the PHP scripting language and makes it easy to create database driven sites with almost no knowledge of SQL code. Known Host offers PhpMyAdmin pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
Picture Gallery
Picture gallery is a display of pictures in one given area. Pictures are used on web sites to make them more visually appealing to visitors and also for displaying your personal collection. Known Host offers a variety of picture gallery programs with your control panel on all hosting packages such as Coppermine Photo Gallery (cPanel & Plesk), Gallery (cPanel & Plesk) and 4images Gallery (cPanel).
POP3/IMAP
POP3 is the method of delivering email from the mail server to the client machine. IMAP is used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. IMAP and POP3 are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for email retrieval.
Plesk
Plesk is the leading multi-platform control panel for service providers" worldwide, delivering proven performance, ease of use and value for shared, virtual and dedicated hosting. Known Host offers Plesk to our customers on all our hosting packages.
Plesk Application Vault
Application Vault is a completely customisable warehouse of applications giving admins the ability to add, deploy, configure and remove applications for any domain on the system. Known Host offers Application Vault to our customers who choose Plesk as their control panel of choice.
Python
Python is an interactive programming language often compared to PERL or Java. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax and has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. Known Host offers Python pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
Reseller Hosting
In Reseller hosting, account owner allocate hard disks" space and bandwidth to the number of resellers. There are many Top Reseller Hosting providers.
Server
A server is a specific type of computer that provides the services to the clients.
Shared Hosting
This is the most basic of web hosting packages. With shared hosting numerous web sites are sharing a single server. Shared hosting is an economic solution for low traffic web sites without high storage requirements.
Shared IP Address
An IP address that is shared by the multiple websites.
Shopping Cart
A shopping cart is software that is used to make the sites products catalogue for online ordering.
Site Monitoring
Site monitoring is a type of the service that is used for monitoring the website. It sends alerts to the administrators in case of any problem.
Site builder
Site builder
A website builder application designed for quickly creating and editing attractive websites and can be easily integrated into any business process. Known Host offers a variety of Site builder tools with your control panel on all hosting packages such as Mambo (Plesk), Soholaunch Pro Edition (cPanel) and Templates Express (cPanel).
SQL (Standard Query Language)
A protocol used to request information from databases. Servers which can handle SQL are known as SQL servers.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
A protocol developed by Netscape to handle and protect confidential information required for E-commerce transactions such as credit card numbers and other personal details. SSL addresses typically begin with "https".
Shockwave
Shockwave is a web based application by Macromedia that is used to view the entertainment, movies, images, flash, songs, rich-media chat, games and interactive product demo"s.
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol that is used to send the emails over the internet.
Spam Assassin
Spam Assassin is a computer program used for email spam filtering based on content-matching rules, which also supports DNS-based, checksum-based and statistical filtering, supported by external programs and online databases. Spam Assassin is known as one of the most effective spam filters, especially when used in combination with spam databases. Known Host offers Spam Assassin to our customers on both cPanel and Plesk control panels.
SSI
SSI is commands that can be embedded in web pages that are processed by the web server when a user requests a file. The most common usage of SSI is the inclusion of common menus, headers and footer elements for a page. Known Host offers SSI pre-bundled with either cPanel or Plesk control panel.
SSL
SSL is a commonly used protocol for managing the security of message transmissions in a network. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt important data, such as credit card numbers, that"s transferred over the SSL connection.
Sub Domain
Generally known as a "Domain within a Domain", sub-domains are web addresses built upon an existing domain name. For example, "subdomain.domain.com" is built upon "domain.com".
Telnet
A command line interface that allows remote users to communicate with web servers.
UNIX Hosting
A type of web hosting that supports UNIX.
USENET
A worldwide system of the discussion groups.
VPS (Virtual Private Server)
This is one step above shared server hosting, a VPS provides the services offered by a dedicated server but on a server shared with other web hosting customers.
VPS Hosting
VPS sands for Virtual Private Server. There are many Top VPS Hosting providers.
WAN
WAN stands for Wide Area Network that covers that broader geographical location.
Web Mail
Web Mail is a type of the email that is access through the web browser.
Web Calendar
Web Calendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors. Known Host offers Web Calendar to our customers on both Cpanel and Plesk control panels.
Webadmin
Webadmin is a set of web based scripts developed to ease system administration tasks. It has a web-based interface for configuring all the internals of the operating system.
Web Server
A Web Server is a computer that stores web pages and delivers them on request to the web browsers of client computers.
WHOIS
A central database that tracks all domain name registrations.